Eyes and Fingers of a Canadian Nerd with only a spellcheck to edit the work.

15 Aug 2012

Wednesday New Comic Day - Is Valiant Back?

Valiant comics, ahh those were the days. Inheriting the
various pulp comics of the silver, golden age and everything else, Valiant came
to term at the same time as Image comics. With more mature writing and ground
breaking concepts it was against the frequently tardy but flashy art of Image
who’s idea of Mature was violence, blood and semi-pornographic ladies.

Was I an Image fan? Yes. Did I read Valiant? Yes, but not as
much as Image.

Why?

Backlash, WildCATS and Team 7 were my favourite books and
characters. They still are today even if they no longer exist since DC took
over the Wildstorm studios from Image, buying out Jim Lee and his partners.

I liked X-O Manowar and I enjoyed the HARD Corps. I read the
comics and put them back down on the shelf. I was working at a comic shop at
the time and had limited resources when it came to picking my ‘payment’ that
week.

Jim Shooter who used to run Marvel took up arms brought some
great writers including Barry Windsor-Smith (he created the Weapon-X background
for Wolverine and did the Marvel Comics presents storyline that has become so
famous) and a few others. He event ran a program that would train people to
make comics the ‘Valiant’ way... the greatest of those grads was non other then
Joe Quesada.

His partner in founding this comic publisher was Bob Layton
who is one of the two guys who made Iron Man the guy that lovable drunk
womanizer that Mr Downey has made portrayed into film. The multi suit, Justin
Hammer rival, drunk genius...

Yet Jim Shooter lost control of his work.

Valient exploded and was bought by Acclaim, Jim Shooter
spent less time with his creations. When Dark Horse picked up the rights to
some of the Valiant Characters (those from Golden Key; Solar and Magnus) Mr
Shooter started up once again.

So Valiant is back new company, new management and some of
those great characters and comics are also back.

Will this time be the time that the Valiant finally win long
enough to stay?

Maybe.

I want to see where Gilad (the Eternal Warrior), Aram
(Armstrong) and Ivar (the Timewalker) end up. Rai, Dr. Mirage, Ninjak and the
whole Harbinger series of books could use a new lease on life. X-O Manowar and
the Armorines need to hit it up again.

Sorry folks, seems a portion of my wasted youth has come
back forcing memories back to the front of my head.

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